Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Werner Herzog

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

Rabindranath Tagore

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Joseph Campbell

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Jimmy Carter

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Vin Scully

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

John Updike

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

John Piper

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

Marcus Giles

Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue.

Serena Kim

Italians at the end of the day are Europeans. This Cuban guy is a person of color and a political refugee.

Andy Klatt

He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.

David Bryant

Here we are in 2005, and a lot of the stuff is still going on today. People are still judging each other on how much money they have or their race, ... It's not about the color of skin but about people respecting one another for just being people.

Gerald Smith

It confirmed everything I had read about the colored fair in terms of the size of the crowd. For me, it just made it real. It is one thing to hear about it and read about it, but when you see it, it makes all the difference.

Louis Amundson

I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.

Sarah Price

I thought by now people would realize people just want to be people. I think there needs to be a time-out for the whole color thing.

Holger Schmieding

Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.

Steve Gunderson

It is not like the sky is falling. The presence of mercury in Colorado lakes is kind of spotty and it is fairly complicated because there is no pattern.